Staffing the Folklore Library and Archive for the future

This appeal is for The Folklore Library and Archive, a registered charity based in the United Kingdom. Our popularity means that we have now become victims of our own success!

Since its formation as a charity in 2023, the FLA has been instrumental in identifying, saving and preserving folklore material and archives of international significance, and working on a digitisation programme to make these available anywhere.

Our charitable remit is to save this material and make it free for everyone to access, with no paywalls or restrictions.

The Folklore Library and Archive has now reached tipping point. We have a backlog of vitally important material and can no longer function just on volunteering and goodwill if we are to preserve this for the public good.

Our problem? We have no paid staff. This makes our archives at risk because we cannot devote enough time to cataloguing, digitising and bringing the material to the public. We need this material to be available for everyone.

This fundraiser will allow us to pay for part-time professional staffing for the next year, to enable us to grow our collections and secure more funding, making our archives accessible to everyone.

Without this help, we may lose the opportunity to save more important folklore material from destruction.

If you can help, please donate, and please share this campaign with others. Thank you.